How a Mutation Changed a Protein and Life's Course (IMAGE)

University of Oregon

How a Mutation Changed a Protein and Life's Course

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This is an artist rendition of protein evolution showing an evolutionary tree in the background denoting the relationship of genes, and proteins in the foreground affected by mutations in those genes.

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Courtesy of Kenneth Prehoda

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